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TagTeam social RSS aggregratorEnhancing the discovery of institutional repository contents - 6 sources to consider | Musings about librarianship<p>"The "inside-out library" was a concept coined by Lorcan Dempsey as an interesting way to capture the change in the function of libraries today. Instead of merely bringing in content from the outside into the community (i.e the traditional role of buying of books and journals), academic libraries are now taking on roles of promoting the content created by their community to the outside world.</p>
<p>While I have mused on the challenges of institutional repositories (mostly around the reluctance of faculty to deposit), some institutional repostories (IR) do manage to get a fair amount of content in repositories. For those libraries, the question shifts towards how best to make their content as discoverable as possible.</p>
<p>What follows is my musings about 6 different sources you might want to optimize to ensure your IR content has the broadest reach possible, unfortunately my experience is that this isn't always very straight forward. </p>
<p>I will discuss the following three groups of sources: Search engines and aggregators like Google Scholar, BASE , CORE; OA finding tools like Unpaywall, OAbutton, Kopernio, Lazy Scholar; Misc sources like Wikipedia, SHARE, OpenAIRE and more.</p>
<p>I will discuss why you might be interested in checking these sources or services and how you might possibly do this...."</p>
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Wed, 14 Mar 2018 08:19:00 -0400http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2018/03/enhancing-discovery-of-institutional.html
oa.newoa.lisoa.librariesoa.libpuboa.repositoriesoa.greenoa.iroa.heioa.searchoa.discoverabilityoa.toolsHow to sort the good from the bad in OER - The Hechinger Report<p>"<span>Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. Sometimes, they consult curation sites that have evaluated these materials; sometimes they just consult other teachers on what they use.</span></p>
<p>The need for reliable evaluation has become more urgent with the flood of new, often free, online materials. These OER – open educational resources – may be good, bad or indifferent. How can school districts or teachers know?</p>
<p>“There’s more bad OER out there than good; that’s a fact,” said Rebecca Kockler, assistant superintendent of academic instruction for the state of Louisiana, at the annual SXSWedu conference last week in Austin, Texas. “We need to find the quality stuff and elevate it, for everyone.”</p>
<p>Along with quality classroom materials, there’s an urgent need for quality curricula, Kockler said. The idea of teachers searching the web for individual units of study, or even individual lessons, strikes her as a huge waste of time. When it happens, she said, “we try to weed that out of our districts.”</p>
<p>Instead, Louisiana’s Department of Education promotes an integrated curriculum and makes all parts of it available on the department’s website. When they have a whole curriculum, aligned to the state’s common core standards and flexible enough to be adapted for the schools’ own particular students’ needs, she said, teachers can spend the bulk of their time teaching. But she said professional development and support are essential, too. And they’re lacking....</p>
<p>She and her fellow panelists mentioned a few OER sources that do provide teacher support (aka professional development) in their offerings. Among them: UnboundEd, a nonprofit created to continue the work of the Engage NY curriculum developers; Open Up Resources, a nonprofit whose K-5 English Language Arts curriculum and middle-school math curriculum have both received top ratings from EdReports, an evaluator; Great Minds, which makes the highly popular Eureka Math curriculum, and IBM Watson’s Teacher Advisor, which offers content recommendations and individualized help with lesson-planning for K-5 math teachers...."</p>
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Wed, 14 Mar 2018 07:39:00 -0400http://hechingerreport.org/how-to-sort-the-good-from-the-bad-in-oer/
oa.newoa.oeroa.coursewareoa.textbooksoa.educationoa.usaoa.discoverabilityoa.qualityoa.facultySeeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa<p>"African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms. In addition, traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impact Factor, fail to make legible all African scholarly production. Many African universities also do not take a strategic approach to scholarly communication to broaden the reach of their scholarsí work. To address this challenge, the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) was established to help raise the visibility of African scholarship by mapping current research and communication practices in Southern African universities and by recommending and piloting technical and administrative innovations based on open access dissemination principles. To do this, SCAP conducted extensive research in four faculties at the Universities of Botswana, Cape Town, Mauritius and Namibia."</p>
Thu, 08 Mar 2018 03:57:00 -0500https://muse.jhu.edu/book/32990
oa.africaoa.southoa.scholcommoa.universitiesoa.discoverabilityoa.impactoa.obstaclesoa.metricsoa.recommendationsoa.heioa.botswanaoa.south_africaoa.mauritiusoa.namibiaeLife Innovation Sprint 2018 | Software Sustainability Institute<p>"eLife is a non-profit organisation inspired by research funders and led by scientists whose mission include help scientists accelerate discovery. Our friends at eLife are organising a <a href="https://elifesciences.org/events/c40798c3/elife-innovation-sprint-2018">two-day challenge</a> on 10th and 11th May 2018 in Cambridge for developers, designers, technologists and researchers to collaboratively prototype new innovations that bring cutting-edge technology to open research communication.</p>
<p>The sprint is limited to 60 seats and applications are open to anyone aged 18 or over until 9am GMT on March 5. Support for travel and accommodation is available for those who would not otherwise be able to participate. eLife aims to communicate the outcome of each application by March 23."</p>
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 09:31:00 -0500https://www.software.ac.uk/news/elife-innovation-sprint-2018
oa.newoa.eventoa.cftoa.elifeoa.code4oaoa.ukoa.flossoa.discoverabilityOSF | NEH: Integrating digital humanities into the web of scholarship with SHARE<p>"Contributors: Cynthia Hudson-Vitale Judy Ruttenberg Jeffrey R. Spies Rick Johnson Joanne Paterson Matthew Harp Thomas Padilla Nancy Maron Natsuko Nicholls Barbara Rockenbach. Affiliated institutions: Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>Welcome to the project space for the NEH supported grant: "Integrating digital humanities into the web of scholarship with SHARE: An exploration of requirements"</p>
<p>All survey instruments, data, meeting notes, and project documents will be stored in the OSF project.</p>
<p>This project will develop a plan to optimize the SHARE aggregator and data set for digital humanities in consultation with scholars, institutions, and centers.</p>
<p>Given the dispersed nature of modern scholarship, a digital humanities project may produce more than one book or article manuscript, each published on a different publisher’s website, any number of pre-prints on institutional repositories or pre-print servers, data sets and code books on Dryad or Figshare, and text mining or cleaning scripts on github. With many digital humanities projects based in academic departments, such project components may be housed semi-permanently in web-publishing platforms like Omeka without formal integration with library discovery systems or other services to link them to similar projects.</p>
<p>As part of a growing open infrastructure movement, the SHARE platform links scholarly activity across the research lifecycle and makes it available as enhanced, free, open metadata.</p>
<p>The project team will administer a survey, conduct focus groups, and engage with the humanities community to detail requirements and prototype applications for digital scholarship curation, discovery, and aggregation using SHARE."</p>
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 08:41:00 -0500https://osf.io/kx2cy/
oa.newoa.shareoa.nehoa.dhoa.alaoa.librariesoa.lisoa.discoverabilityoa.metadataoa.dataoa.usaoa.humanitiesoa.sshoa.osfoa.scholcommNEH: Integrating Digital Humanities into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE: A Workshop <p>Contributors: Cynthia Hudson-Vitale Judy Ruttenberg Jeffrey R. Spies Rick Johnson Joanne Paterson Matthew Harp Thomas Padilla Nancy Maron Natsuko Nicholls Barbara Rockenbach. Affiliated institutions: Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>"In mid-February during the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Conference in Denver, Colorado, the SHARE team will convene approximately 40 invited experts in digital humanities (DH) practice, librarians, publishers, and managers of disciplinary and institutional repositories and related, large-scale, digital library projects to work on challenges in discovering DH scholarship. While some of those challenges are well-known—for example, the tendency for DH projects to live on stand-alone websites rather than in repositories, and the related complication of identifying and describing component parts of the work—the interventions and services to address them within the scholars’ workflow are less documented and understood. Through a combination of lightning talks and active working sessions, participants will collectively define key issues around DH project metadata, and how SHARE’s metadata-harvesting technology can integrate with the world of DH registries, identifiers, and repositories to improve discovery for this important area of scholarship.</p>
<p>The workshop will be facilitated by Nancy Maron of BlueSky to BluePrint, and the participants’ collective work will inform the next phases of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Advancement Grant “Integrating Digital Humanities into the Web of Scholarship with SHARE.” The next phases of the project include site visits by project team members to DH centers (either based in libraries or not) and prototyping discovery tools using the SHARE harvester with institutional and/or disciplinary repositories or registries."</p>
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 08:36:00 -0500https://osf.io/978qv/
oa.newoa.shareoa.eventoa.dhoa.alaoa.librariesoa.lisoa.discoverabilityoa.metadataoa.dataoa.usaoa.humanitiesoa.sshSHARE v3: Rebooting the Metadata-Harvesting Framework, Metadata-Editing Pipeline | SHARE<p>"Jeffrey Spies, SHARE’s co-director and the original architect of both SHARE and the Open Science Framework (OSF), will be leading a redesign of SHARE’s core technology over the coming months as an independent partner. Joining Jeff in this effort will be Rick Johnson, a program director at the University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries, visiting program officer for SHARE at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and longstanding contributor to other open-source community development efforts, such as Samvera. The next phase of the project—SHARE v3—will make SHARE’s metadata-harvesting process more conducive to community contribution, improve the metadata-editing pipeline for more efficient human intervention, and restructure the database to more readily capture relationships among works, creators, and affiliations. In addition, this phase will make institutional hosting of SHARE technology more accessible.</p>
<p>In this phase, the SHARE team will actively pursue code contributions from the community, strategic partnerships with allied projects in open scholarship, and institutional participation. With open community calls and development sprints, the SHARE team will provide the community a mechanism to prioritize and contribute features and improvements. Analysis, prototyping, and partnership development are already underway.</p>
<p>The increased focus on institutions and community contribution marks an important milestone for SHARE. Having been incubated by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and its higher education counterparts in the Association of American Universities and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities in 2013, SHARE’s core tools and technologies were built by the Center for Open Science (COS) in collaboration with ARL. SHARE v2 was completed in the summer of 2016 at the same time that COS launched OSF Preprints, now hosting almost 20 different discipline- and language-based preprint services. SHARE, already a metadata aggregator for existing preprint services such as RePEc and arXiv, was easily deployed to power the most comprehensive search of preprints across all disciplines. COS will continue to maintain SHARE v2 as OSF Preprint search.</p>
<p>SHARE’s broader mission, rooted in the research library community, is to make research widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable by reflecting the entirety of the research life cycle in the SHARE data set. The SHARE application programming interface (API) provides access to more than 150 repositories of data, software, and other contextual materials that accompany formal publications. SHARE v3’s redesign will be driven by the research-affiliation user story: what research output can I associate with my institution; and the funder user story: what research is associated with a particular funding source. Because of their complexity, these use cases can only be realized through a decentralized, community-based approach to local data curation (and wrangling) on one hand, and a scalable, reusable, unified code base on the other. The SHARE team is actively pursuing collaboration with others involved in open-source research analytics and welcomes partners and stakeholders who want to drive development of an open-source, open-platform approach to institutional-research stewardship."</p>
Sun, 04 Mar 2018 08:14:00 -0500http://www.share-research.org/2018/03/share-v3-rebooting-the-metadata-harvesting-framework-metadata-editing-pipeline/
oa.newoa.metadataoa.shareoa.harvestingoa.dataoa.code4oaoa.consultationsoa.cosoa.librariesoa.lisoa.discoverabilityoa.versionsoa.interoperabilityoa.apisWider die Ordnungsphantasien! Argumente gegen ein zentrales Verzeichnis für OER<p>Google English: "Arguments against a central directory for OER.</p>
<p>Time and again there is a demand in the debates about OER: "There has to be a central platform. A place to go if you are looking for OER or want to publish yourself. "The demand is understandable if you keep the mess around Open Educational Resources in mind. There is an unmanageable number of offers. The materials are of varying quality and sometimes of questionable senders. You do not know much and do not find it at all or only by accident. Everyone uses their own systematics and their own terminology. OER is a big mess! Would not it be nice if someone would clean up?</p>
<p>The longing for order and uniformity is understandable. But the price for a central platform would be high..."</p>
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 11:05:00 -0500https://open-educational-resources.de/wider-die-ordnungsphantasien-argumente-gegen-ein-zentrales-verzeichnis-fuer-oer/
oa.newoa.germanoa.oeroa.debatesoa.infrastructureoa.discoverabilityoa.obstaclesoa.searchoa.metadataoa.repositoriesoa.greenRead what you are looking for! ScienceOpen integrates more Open Access data - ScienceOpen Blog<p>"One of the biggest challenges for researchers is time. So when you find an abstract of interest and have just a moment to actually read, you need the full text right now. With our newest release, the <a href="https://www.scienceopen.com">ScienceOpen</a> discovery environment incorporates open access data from Impactstory to provide researchers with more ways to read the paper.</p>
<p>Institutional repositories, open access aggregators, self-archiving, preprint servers – the last years have seen a proliferation of access options. The new ScienceOpen article page, therefore, aims for transparency and choice on nearly 40 million article records.</p>
<p>ScienceOpen is excited to work with the Unpaywall data from Impactstory to provide more information about open access licenses and access options for our users. This powerful dataset is being used by several discovery engines to enrich the search experience. Jason Priem of Impactstory says, “we’re thrilled to welcome ScienceOpen as our latest partner to integrate Unpaywall data, and excited about how this new integration furthers our goal to make Open Access content truly ubiquitous for researchers and readers.”..."</p>
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:22:00 -0500http://blog.scienceopen.com/2018/02/scienceopen-open-access-data/
oa.newoa.versionsoa.toolsoa.unpaywalloa.searchoa.discoverabilityoa.metadataoa.dataoa.platformsoa.scienceopenoa.recommendersoa.impactstoryStructured Data on Commons is the most important development in Wikimedia's usability | the Wikimedia UK blog!<p>"...One of the biggest complaints about Commons which discourages people from using it is that it’s incredibly hard to find what you’re looking for. People upload files and fill out some information about their content, but not in a particularly systematic or structured way, with minimal automated assistance.</p>
<p>This means that when you try to search for something on Commons, you’ll be presented with a huge array of files with minimal relevance to your search. You can’t even really search for media by date. Which date would you be searching for anyway? The date the media was created, the date it was modified or the date it was uploaded? Without systematic organisation of media on Commons, it will continue to represent a disorderly and overgrown garden that desperately needs work to give it some order.</p>
<p>This is where the <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data">Structured Data on Commons (SDoC)</a> project comes in. Funded by a $3m grant from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation, the project is running from 2017-19, and will hopefully lead to big changes in the way Commons is structured and used...."</p>
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 06:37:00 -0500https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2018/02/structured-data-on-commons-is-the-most-important-development-in-wikimedias-usability/
oa.newoa.searchoa.metadataoa.imagesoa.wikimediaoa.sloan_foundationoa.discoverabilityoa.interoperabilityoa.dataOpen access community workshop – what happened and what’s happened since? | Jisc scholarly communications<p>"Our latest community workshop took place just before Christmas. As well as providing an opportunity to find out about and feedback on Jisc’s open access activities, our community events aim to provide a place to discuss and progress common issues facing institutions. Here we give a summary of the day, along with updates on the issues raised."</p>
Tue, 27 Feb 2018 07:50:00 -0500https://scholarlycommunications.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2018/02/26/open-access-community-workshop-what-happened-and-whats-happened-since/
oa.newoa.eventoa.notesoa.jiscoa.ukoa.negotiationsoa.offsetsoa.dataoa.upoa.publishingoa.orcidoa.policiesoa.policies.fundersoa.depositsoa.greenoa.repositoriesoa.implementationoa.complianceoa.journalsoa.goldoa.best_practicesoa.discoverabilityoa.booksoa.formatsoa.rdmGolden Rules for Repository Managers | BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine | FAQ<p>"We are indexing all kinds of academically relevant resources - journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. - which provide an OAI interface and use OAI-PMH for providing their contents (learn more about OAI at the Open Archives Initiative or Wikipedia). In case your source does not provide an OAI interface, upload your documents to aggregators like DataCite or Zenodo, to subject repositories like RePEC or add your open access journal to DOAJ. We are indexing these sources regularly.</p>
<p>However, the best way to get your documents indexed by BASE is to provide an OAI interface. We have compiled some golden rules that might be helpful to optimize your OAI interface. If your OAI interface complies with these rules, we can assure fast and smooth indexing of your source. Data from your source will be presented completely and in the best possible way.</p>
<p>You can check some of the following items using our <a href="http://oval.base-search.net">OAI-PMH validator OVAL</a>...."</p>
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 07:25:00 -0500https://www.base-search.net/about/en/faq_oai.php
oa.newoa.baseoa.repositoriesoa.greenoa.metadataoa.searchoa.discoverabilityoa.oaioa.standardsoa.dataoa.guideoa.indexingoa.toolsoa.recommendationsoa.best_practicesLas descargas desde la web pirata de artículos de revistas Sci-Hub se triplicaron en 2017 | Universo Abierto<p>[From Google tranlsate] Downloads from the pirated Sci-Hub journal articles website tripled in 2017</p>
<p>The Sci-Hub website allows users to download PDF versions of academic articles, including many paid articles from websites of multinational publishers. Sci-Hub has grown rapidly since its inception in 2011, but the scope of coverage was not clear. It appears that as of March 2017, the Sci-Hub database contains 68.9% of the 81.6 million academic articles registered in Crossref and 85.1% of the articles published in paid journals. Coverage varies by discipline and publisher, but the truth is that Sci-Hub preferably covers the most popular content on academic publishers' websites that are accessed by subscription to a license; to give us an idea of the site's size, Sci-Hub offers greater coverage than the University of Pennsylvania, one of the leading research universities in the United States.</p>
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:12:00 -0500https://universoabierto.org/2018/02/21/las-descargas-desde-la-web-pirata-de-articulos-de-revistas-sci-hub-se-triplicaron-en-2017/
oa.newoa.spanishoa.sci-huboa.journalsoa.goldoa.surveysoa.qualityoa.piracyoa.crossrefoa.copyrightoa.universitiesoa.discoverabilityRecomendaciones para la plena implantación de la política nacional de acceso abierto | PoliScience<p>[From Google translate] Recommendations for the full implementation of national open access policy</p>
<p>The FECYT [Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología] has just published a document containing Recommendations for the full implementation of the national open access policy, recommendations that focus on these five areas of action:</p>
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<li>Measuring the degree of compliance with open publishing</li>
<li>Optimization in the deposit of publications</li>
<li>Attention to researchers and new indicators</li>
<li>Journals expenditure containment</li>
<li>Transparency in journals contracting</li>
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Mon, 19 Feb 2018 07:22:00 -0500http://poliscience.blogs.upv.es/2018/02/05/recomendaciones-para-la-plena-implantacion-de-la-politica-nacional-de-acceso-abierto/
oa.newoa.spainoa.spanishoa.dataoa.journalsoa.goldoa.discoverabilityoa.assessmentoa.iroa.recommendationsoa.complianceoa.best_practicesoa.depositsoa.open_scienceoa.europeoa.fundingoa.incentivesoa.policiesoa.qualityoa.greenoa.repositoriesThe American Society for Microbiology Joins the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)<p>"We are pleased to announce that the American Society for Microbiology has joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). The Initiative for Open Citations I4OC is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data. It aims to establish a global public web of linked scholarly citation data to enhance the discoverability of published content, explore connections between knowledge fields, and follow the evolution of ideas and scholarly disciplines...."</p>
Sun, 18 Feb 2018 04:47:00 -0500https://www.asm.org/index.php/newsroom/item/7109-the-american-society-for-microbiology-joins-the-initiative-for-open-citations-i4oc
oa.newoa.i4ocoa.asmoa.societiesoa.usaoa.stemoa.biologyoa.open_scienceoa.citationsoa.dataoa.metadataoa.discoverabilityNavigating the unfolding open data landscape in ecology and evolution | Nature Ecology & Evolution | Antica Culina et al.<p>Abstract: "Open access to data is revolutionizing the sciences. To allow ecologists and evolutionary biologists to confidently find and use the existing data, we provide an overview of the landscape of online data infrastructures, and highlight the key points to consider when using open data. We introduce an online collaborative platform to keep a community-driven, updated list of the best sources that enable search for data in one interface. In doing so, our aim is to lower the barrier to accessing open data, and encourage its use by researchers hoping to increase the scope, reliability and value of their findings."</p>
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 11:17:00 -0500https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0458-2
oa.newoa.dataoa.ecology.oa.stemoa.open_scienceoa.infrastructureoa.discoverabilityoa.searchoa.platformsoa.accessoa.reuseOSTI Launches OSTI.GOV | OSTI, US Dept of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information<p>"The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) has taken another step in improving citizen and researcher access to DOE research results. Specifically, OSTI has redesigned its homepage and website so that OSTI.GOV now serves as the search tool for DOE’s research and development (R&amp;D) results, as well as OSTI’s organizational hub. ... </p>
<p>“OSTI.GOV is a consolidation of OSTI’s homepage and our primary search tool for DOE-funded science, technology, and engineering research results, a streamlining intended to enhance the user experience and make it easier to manage performance and overall website quality,” said OSTI Director Brian Hitson regarding the latest improvement in electronic delivery of R&amp;D information. “OSTI.GOV was created to simplify the user search interface, drive search of DOE STI through the homepage, help to unify OSTI’s product environment, and provide intuitive navigation beyond search functionality.”</p>
<p>The search tool feature of OSTI.GOV, formerly called SciTech Connect, makes available over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies, including journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; patents; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains nearly 3 million total records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which have digital object identifiers linking to full-text articles on publishers’ websites. It also has more than 445,000 full-text DOE-funded documents. OSTI.GOV provides access to this DOE STI by offering easy-to-use search capabilities and customization options. For the DOE community, additional citation information is available to help researchers evaluate article impact and find related research. ..."</p>
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:08:00 -0500https://www.osti.gov/osti-launches-ostigov
oa.newoa.usaoa.stemoa.technologyoa.governmentoa.psioa.accessoa.platformsoa.energyoa.open_scienceoa.doeoa.discoverabilityCOAR Next Generation Repositories: Vision and Objectives<h2>"Vision</h2>
<p>To position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value added services will be deployed, thereby transforming the system, making it more research-centric, open to and supportive of innovation, while also collectively managed by the scholarly community.</p>
<h2>Technical Vision</h2>
<p>Our vision rests on making the resource, rather than the repository, the focus of services and infrastructure. Rather than relying on imprecise descriptive metadata to identify entities and the relationships between them, our vision relies on the idea inherent in the Web Architecture, where entities (known as "resources") are accessible and identified unambiguously by URLs. In this architecture, it is the references which are copied between systems, rather than (as at present) the metadata records. Furthermore we encourage repository developers to automatize the metadata extraction from the actual resources as much as possible to simplify and lower the barrier to the deposit process.</p>
<h2>Objectives</h2>
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<li>To achieve a level of cross-repository interoperability by exposing uniform behaviours across repositories that leverage web-friendly technologies and architectures, and by integrating with existing global scholarly infrastructures specifically those aimed at identification of e.g. contributions, research data, contributors, institutions, funders, projects.</li>
<li>To encourage the emergence of value added services that use these uniform behaviours to support discovery, access, annotation, real-time curation, sharing, quality assessment, content transfer, analytics, provenance tracing, etc.</li>
<li>To help transform the scholarly communication system by emphasizing the benefits of collective, open and distributed management, open content, uniform behaviours, real-time dissemination, and collective innovation. "</li>
</ul>
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 04:55:00 -0500http://ngr.coar-repositories.org/
oa.repositoriesoa.greenoa.iroa.best_practicesoa.coaroa.recommendationsoa.discoverabilityoa.annotationoa.preservationoa.standardsoa.sustainabilityoa.reuseoa.platformsoa.infrastructureDissemination, distribution and discovery of e-textbooks | Institution as e-textbook publisher<p>"Both textbooks are available in a variety of formats, each requiring a different strategy in order to reach the target readership. For this blog post, we’ll concentrate on our open access formats (PDF, HTML and app) and how each of the decisions that we made makes the books more discoverable."</p>
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 04:42:00 -0500https://etextbook.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2018/02/08/dissemination-distribution-and-discovery-of-e-textbooks/
oa.newoa.oeroa.textbooksoa.formatsoa.usageoa.downloadsoa.discoverabilityoa.publishersoa.platformsoa.metadataoa.librariesoa.booksoa.ucl_pressoa.ukFernando Bleichmar: Open educational resources offer exciting possibilities, though impediments remain (opinion)<p>"Open educational resources offer enormous possibilities for college students and professors, but much work remains in finding, curating and maintaining the curricular materials, Fernando Bleichmar writes....</p>
<p>Last year, my colleagues and I at Cengage spoke with nearly 3,000 instructors across higher education to understand how we can better support them in being the best possible educators. Almost three-quarters of them told us that what they need most is high-quality content for their courses....</p>
<p>The industry is ready for change. New models like Cengage Unlimited, an all-inclusive subscription for course materials, can significantly address the cost of materials. Similarly, open educational resources -- free and openly licensed educational materials -- have the potential to lower costs for students while also offering instructors freedom to customize course content. OER has been around for decades but recently has been gaining momentum as a resourceful way to provide less expensive options to students...."</p>
Thu, 08 Feb 2018 11:08:00 -0500https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/views/2018/02/07/open-educational-resources-offer-exciting-possibilities-though
oa.newoa.oeroa.cengageoa.qualityoa.facultyoa.discoverabilityoa.toolsOpen Access coming to iDiscover? – ejournals@cambridge<p>"...Over 2018, we should see the integration of Primo (iDiscover) with <a href="https://core.ac.uk">CORE</a>, making available in the University’s discovery service many millions of records for OA research articles, following the new partnership of the CORE service with Ex Libris.</p>
<p>The agreement has been described on the JISC involve blog here: The aggregated content includes metadata (currently 90m records) and open access research outputs hosted in CORE (currently 9m full text articles) from more than 3,600 repositories and over 10,000 journals in the UK and worldwide (currently 70 countries) and in 53 languages. The Open University’s activity with the OpenMinTeD project (providing connectors to publisher OA content from Elsevier, Springer, Frontiers and PLoS ) has also resulted in more OA content (1,831,977 full text items) in CORE...."</p>
Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:17:00 -0500https://ejournalscambridge.wordpress.com/2018/02/06/open-access-coming-to-idiscover/
oa.newoa.discoverabilityoa.coreoa.metadataoa.repositoriesoa.greenoa.journalsoa.goldoa.accessConsultation deadline extended for OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers 4.0 | Newsletter items<p>"The draft of the new Metadata Application Profile (OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories v4) was initially announced in October 2017.</p>
<p>Since then, OpenAIRE has collected feedback for the suggested application profile and the guidelines documentation and decided to extend the deadline for consultation until the end of February 2018, aiming to receive broader feedback from repository managers and repository platform developers."</p>
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:17:00 -0500https://www.openaire.eu/consultation-deadline-extended-for-openaire-guidelines-for-literature-repository-managers-4-0
oa.newoa.openaireoa.consultationsoa.repositoriesoa.greenoa.metadataoa.obstaclesoa.discoverabilityoa.infrastructureWhat's Happening at COS - February 2018<p>"Below is one highlight from each level of the pyramid, illustrating COS’s efforts to connect and collaborate with our community of stakeholders accelerating science during the last quarter of 2017."</p>
Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:10:00 -0500https://mailchi.mp/cos/mb15jeonh0-1382937?e=2d83680596
oa.newoa.cosoa.newlettersoa.osfoa.preprintsoa.versionsoa.discoverabilityoa.repositoriesoa.repositories.disciplinaryoa.greenoa.preregistrationRenforcer la science ouverte : coup d'envoi du projet OpenAIRE-Advance, un des piliers de l'European Open Science Cloud (Strengthening open science: kicking off the OpenAIRE-Advance project, one of the pillars of the European Open Science Cloud)<p>From Google's English:</p>
<p>"Couperin, with 50 other institutions from all over Europe, has been a partner of the European OpenAIRE project since its creation in 2008. Openaire harvests the archives of the different countries and makes them available on a dedicated platform. Since the beginning, Couperin has played a role of dissemination and promotion of the project and Open Access in France and accompanies the obligation to deposit the results of the research funded by the European Commission, by directly contacting those responsible for projects and people in charge of OA archives. From 1 January 2018, OpenAIRE enters a new phase with the start of the OpenAIRE-Advance project. OpenAIRE-Advance will work to make open science the default solution in Europe, reshaping the scientific communication system towards openness and transparency as a pillar of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)."</p>
Sun, 04 Feb 2018 04:23:00 -0500http://www.couperin.org/site-content/261-a-la-une/1328-renforcer-la-science-ouverte-coup-d-envoi-du-projet-openaire-advance-un-des-piliers-de-l-european-open-science-cloud
André Dazy oa.newoa.frenchoa.franceoa.eoscoa.openaireoa.platformsoa.fundersoa.infrastructureoa.open_scienceoa.interoperabilityoa.searchoa.discoverabilityoa.collaborationoa.benefitsoa.toolsoa.repositoriesResearchers will soon have access to thousands of European data sets through CESSDA Data Catalogue<p>CESSDA's data catalogue, which will be available in 2018, will contain the metadata of all data in the holdings of CESSDA service providers. It will be a one-stop-shop for search and discovery, enabling effective access to European research data for researchers. The catalogue is a big technical feature and one which CESSDA has been meticulously working at for several years, under the stewardship of the CESSDA Technical Group. Alongside data technology improvements, CESSDA will also provide a number of trainings. Technology and training go hand in hand. The CESSDA website itself is a useful resource for researchers as they can find out more about the archives and services in each country in one place. Regular news items and postings on social media channels also mean that researchers can easily follow happenings within CESSDA. </p>Sat, 03 Feb 2018 22:02:00 -0500https://www.cessda.eu/Consortium/Communication/News/CESSDA/Researchers-will-soon-have-access-to-thousands-of-European-data-sets-through-CESSDA-Data-Catalogue
oa.newoa.germanyoa.sshoa.toolsoa.platformsoa.metadataoa.searchoa.awarenessoa.repositoriesoa.repositories.dataoa.dataoa.rdmoa.europeoa.discoverabilityThe Grand Challenges Summit | Grand Challenges Summit<p>"MIT will host a working summit on the Grand Challenges in Information Science and Scholarly Communication March 19-23, 2018. Inviting experts from across disciplines and sectors, the summit aims to identify critical problems in information science that are solvable within 10 years and which have broad implications across the scholarly community.</p>
<p>Three consecutive 1.5-day workshops will produce draft research agendas in the areas of:</p>
<ul>
<li>Scholarly discovery</li>
<li>Digital curation and preservation</li>
<li>Open scholarship</li>
</ul>
<p>Attendance at the workshops is by invitation only. The March 19 opening keynote address is open to the MIT community, and all three keynote addresses will be live-streamed."</p>
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 06:20:00 -0500https://grandchallenges.mit.edu/node/6
oa.newoa.mitoa.eventoa.scholcommoa.preservationoa.discoverabilityoa.usa.maoa.usaProject explores digital library for Africa - Northumbria University, Newcastle<p>"Experts from around the world will visit Northumbria University, Newcastle next month to discuss how the creation of a Pan-African digital library could transform the lives of people living across the continent....</p>
<p>The aim of the NetDiploma (Network for Digital Public Library of Modern Africa) project is to understand the challenges faced across the continent and design a blueprint to ensure people have access to information that could improve their lives and that of future generations. The project will initially focus on three countries – Kenya, Malawi and Ethiopia. Each is demographically different, providing a good overall picture of the continent as a whole...."</p>
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Thu, 01 Feb 2018 11:05:00 -0500http://newsroom.northumbria.ac.uk/pressreleases/project-explores-digital-library-for-africa-2398330
oa.newoa.africaoa.lisoa.ukoa.repositoriesoa.greenoa.southoa.developmentoa.digitizationoa.platformsoa.discoverabilityoa.searchoa.kenyaoa.ethiopiaoa.malawiQ&A: Neliti Co-Founder Anton Lucanus - We're hoping this becomes the Wordpress for Digital Libraries | MENAFN.COM<p>"<a href="https://www.neliti.com">Neliti</a> is a fast-growing research service that aims to connect academics in Indonesia by aggregating research from universities around the archipelago. Neliti currently distributes journals, reports, data and books from just over 500 universities in Indonesia, with the ambitious aim of digitising 95% of Indonesia’s library and journal collections. It has more than two million monthly users. Neliti is The Conversation Indonesia’s content partner, providing a list of selected new academic articles each month.</p>
<p>Neliti’s co-founder, Australian expatriate Anton Lucanus, a former biology researcher, spoke to The Conversation in Jakarta about the origins of the business, how he wants to engage with researchers and Indonesia, as well as the business’ future direction.</p>
<p>The Conversation Indonesia (TC): How did you start Neliti?</p>
<p>Anton Lucanus (Co-founder, Neliti) (AL): I was interning in Jakarta three years ago, in a molecular biology lab, and they were producing cool data on things like the rates of Japanese Encephalitis in West Java or the genome of the first ever case of Zika in Indonesia. But a lot of this important data wasn’t made immediately available because to get that data out to the public you’ve got to go through the whole publication and peer-review process...."</p>
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:11:00 -0500http://theconversation.com/qanda-neliti-co-founder-anton-lucanus-were-hoping-this-becomes-the-wordpress-for-digital-libraries-90769
oa.newoa.indonesiaoa.digitizationoa.infrastructureoa.scholcommoa.heioa.librariesoa.peopleoa.searchoa.discoverabilityoa.indexingoa.repositoriesoa.greenoa.accessFrom Now On More Full-text Articles Will Be Found in Web of Science | Vilnius University Library<p>"Users can refine their search results in Web of Science on the basis of open access criteria. Previously, only articles published in DOAJ indexed open access journals were selected and presented; however, now it is also possible to find open access articles published in hybrid journals. Furthermore, by refining results on this basis, full text articles available in open access repositories will be shown, as well...."</p>
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:44:00 -0500https://biblioteka.vu.lt/en/news/scholarly-communication/now-more-full-text-articles-will-be-found-web-science
oa.newoa.wosoa.searchoa.discoverabilityoa.indexingoa.citationsoa.hybridoa.journalsoa.goldOpen Educational Resources: An Alternative to Publisher Platforms | LodeStar Web Journal<p>"One could easily vilify the textbook publishers and their online learning platforms. ...</p>
<p>Rather, this post recognizes the challenges that constrain faculty and offers an alternative to publisher platforms. Chances are good that you follow this blog because you are concerned about making your online courses better. You choose to be in ‘control’ of your course. The publishers may be broadening their reach to include your discipline – but you wish to select content carefully, add activities and assessments and continually improve your course based on student feedback. Your student feedback. And yet you are faced with constraints on your time and, perhaps, lack of support...."</p>
Sun, 28 Jan 2018 11:22:00 -0500https://lodestarlearn.wordpress.com/2018/01/27/open-educational-resources-an-alternative-to-publisher-platforms/
oa.newoa.oeroa.textbooksoa.platformsoa.coursewareoa.educationoa.publishersoa.benefitsoa.toolsoa.discoverabilityoa.infrastructure'Z-degree' gives texts for free to Central Lakes College students - StarTribune.com | Minnesota<p>"At Minnesota state colleges, students spend an average of $1,000 a year on textbooks alone...Central Lakes College has joined a growing national movement to ditch pricey textbooks in favor of material that can be found online for free. This semester, it launched one of the state’s first “Z-degrees,” meaning that all the required readings — in this case, for an associate of arts degree — are available at zero cost to students. “For a lot of students that are living in poverty, every penny counts,” said Martha Kuehn, dean of liberal arts and sciences at Central Lakes, a community and technical college with 6,000 students.... Already, nearly 10 percent of college instructors nationwide say they use free online textbooks in their courses, according to a <a href="https://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthetextbook2017.pdf">2017 report by the Babson Survey Research Group</a>....</p>
<p>This month, Central Lakes published its first “<a href="http://www.clcmn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Zero-Textbook-Cost-Course-Guide-Spring-2018.pdf">Zero Textbook Cost Course Guide</a>,” which includes classes in math, philosophy, history, biology, the arts and more...."</p>
Sun, 28 Jan 2018 08:14:00 -0500http://www.startribune.com/z-degree-gives-texts-for-free-to-central-lakes-college-students/471450024/
oa.newoa.heioa.usaoa.oeroa.gratisoa.textbooksoa.pricesoa.accessoa.studentsoa.discoverabilityoa.toolsoa.policiesDigital Science Launches Dimensions Platform with Free Discovery for OA, Citations<p>"London-based research technology company Digital Science on January 15 debuted <a href="https://www.dimensions.ai">Dimensions</a>, a citation database, discovery platform, and research analytics suite that links 3.6 billion connections between 124 million documents including academic articles, monographs, patents, clinical trials, funded grants, policy documents, and more. The free core version of the platform (at app.dimensions.ai) delivers one-click access to over nine million open access (OA) articles, as well as 860 million abstracts and citations, accompanied with top line altmetrics information from Digital Science subsidiary Altmetric...."</p>
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:31:00 -0500http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2018/01/oa/digital-science-launches-dimensions-platform-free-discovery-oa-citations/#_
oa.newoa.discoverabilityoa.platformsoa.digital_scienceoa.searchoa.heioa.publishersoa.fundersoa.metadataoa.citationsoa.altmetricsCTF Partners with Digital Science to Promote Open Data | Children's Tumor Foundation<p>"The Children’s Tumor Foundation’s commitment to collaboration, open data and transparency is reinforced with a partnership with global technology company Digital Science on a new platform for next-generation research and discovery called Dimensions. This groundbreaking research information database aims to transform scholarly search by linking publications, grants, policy, data, and metrics for the first time."</p>
Wed, 24 Jan 2018 04:00:00 -0500http://www.ctf.org/news/ctf-partners-with-digital-science-to-promote-open-data
oa.newoa.fundersoa.dataoa.partnershipsoa.platformsoa.discoverabilityoa.citationsoa.searchoa.policiesoa.policies.fundersoa.funders.privateoa.digital_scienceoa.dimensions GUÍA PARA LA EVALUACIÓN DE REPOSITORIOS INSTITUCIONALES DE INVESTIGACIÓN<p>[From Google Translate] GUIDE FOR THE EVALUATION OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH REPOSITORIES</p>
<p>Open access consists of providing online access to all available scientific information (articles, monographs and research data, among others) free of charge for the reader and under a license that can be used and exploited by the researchers, businesses and citizens1. The idea behind open access is that the results of publicly funded research should be available to all. Research becomes more effective and its results more visible when legal, commercial and technological barriers to access scientific information are eliminated. In addition, open access prevents duplication, fosters technology and knowledge transfer and promotes innovation. All actors involved in the communication system of scientific information benefit from open access to research and the data generated by it. The recent interest that open access policies have generated worldwide is the result of many years of work promoting this new model of access to scientific information by researchers and advocates of this policy. The most important advance that is taking place in this context is the growing number of funding entities, universities and research centers that currently have open access policies in the world. The most relevant public and private funding agencies for scientific research are implementing mandatory open access policies, building the foundations for open access to be the usual way to communicate research. Likewise, important universities and research centers are taking the necessary steps in this direction. In Europe, the Horizon 2020 program includes among the obligations of its beneficiaries that of depositing openly all those publications that are generated within the framework of the financed projects. In Spain, Law 14/2011, of June 1, on Science, Technology and Innovation, in its article 37, obliges the beneficiaries of research projects financed by the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation to deposit the final digital version of contributions to periodicals or serials in open access repositories. In addition, there are three regional governments that have taken the initiative and have developed their own regulations on open storage: the Community of Madrid, the Principality of Asturias and the Generalitat de Catalunya. Lastly, open storage has also received an important boost at the institutional level and currently in Spain there are 33 research institutions that have developed their own institutional policy in favor of open access, either in the form of a declaration, recommendation or requirement of mandatory compliance</p>
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:17:00 -0500https://www.recolecta.fecyt.es/sites/default/files/contenido/documentos/2017GuiaEvaluacionRecolectaFECYT.pdf
oa.newoa.spainoa.spanishoa.greenoa.benefitsoa.publishingoa.declarationsoa.journalsoa.peer_reviewoa.definitionsoa.iroa.repositoriesoa.goldoa.interoperabilityoa.standardsoa.metadataoa.discoverabilityoa.dataoa.licensingoa.policiesoa.copyrightoa.platformsEl plan de gestión de datos: una oportunidad de la ciencia abierta para seguir avanzando | datos.gob.es<p>[From Google Translate] The data management plan: an opportunity for open science to continue advancing</p>
<p>The agencies that finance public and private research are interested in having the results disseminated as much as possible. For this reason, and following the current of open science, it was the funders themselves who created the demand to oblige open access to the scientific publications created during an investigation. In the era of open data, this demand has been extended so that, in the same way, the data that underlies the publications (research data) is disseminated and managed appropriately.</p>
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:11:00 -0500http://datos.gob.es/es/noticia/el-plan-de-gestion-de-datos-una-oportunidad-de-la-ciencia-abierta-para-seguir-avanzando
oa.newoa.spainoa.spanishoa.dataoa.open_scienceoa.dmpoa.benefitsoa.fundersoa.metadataoa.licensingoa.reuseoa.privacyoa.preservationoa.discoverabilityoa.horizon2020Research data shared service | Jisc<p>"We’re working on a pilot service to allow researchers and institutions to meet their policy requirements for the deposit and curation of research data...."</p>
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:45:00 -0500https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/research-data-shared-service
oa.jiscoa.dataoa.platformsoa.infrastructureoa.rdmoa.implementationoa.complianceoa.best_practicesoa.ukoa.repositories.dataoa.searchoa.discoverabilityoa.preservationRecursos para tesis doctorales | bujaBlog <p>[From Google Translate] Resources for doctoral theses</p>
<p>A doctoral thesis is a written study about an original character research carried out by a student or a writer based on an analysis of publications made by others on a given topic. The doctoral thesis allows access to the degree of Doctor. Knowing the theses published on an area of knowledge is essential for research, it also facilitates those who are in the process of designing their own to see the methodology used. The doctoral theses constitute a fundamental base in the expansion and development of scientific knowledge</p>
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:38:00 -0500https://blogs.ujaen.es/biblio/?p=7949
oa.newoa.spainoa.spanishoa.toolsoa.studentsoa.etdsoa.oeroa.discoverabilityoa.greenoa.repositoriesoa.iroa.depositsoa.best_practiceRevistas de acceso abierto y voracidad editorial en cuidados paliativos<p>Open access journals and predatory publishing in palliative care</p>
<p>Open access journals have increased in recent years in all areas of medicine. Predatory publishing is corrupting this open access. The objective of this study is to find out the medical journals that are available in open access in the field of Palliative Care and establish whether they could have a predatory publishing profile</p>
Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:20:00 -0500https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1134248X17301015
oa.newoa.spanishoa.journalsoa.credibilityoa.predatoryoa.qualityoa.medicineoa.bealls_listoa.misconductoa.surveysoa.case.impactoa.discoverabilityoa.publishingoa.feesOpen access publishing in Africa: advancing research outputs to global visibility | Ezema | African Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science<p>"Abstract: The purpose of the study was to examine the status of Africa in the open access environment as well as the challenges of providing global visibility to African research outputs. A descriptive bibliometric approach was adopted for the study. Data was extracted from two world repository directories (Registry of Open Access Repositories - ROAR and Directory of Open Access Repositories - DOAR) and Directory of Open Access Journals – DOAJ to determine the presence of Africa and size of repositories and records found in the directories. Findings reveal that only 20 African countries have presence in ROAR and DOAJ, but 22 countries have presence in DOAR. South Africa has more repositories in ROAR and DOAR while Egypt has over 70% of African contributions to DOAJ. The subject coverage of the repositories indicates that there are more publications in the sciences than there are in the social sciences and humanities; the preferred languages of publication in the directories are English, German and French. Though there is slow adoption of publishing in open access journals in Africa, there has been an increase in the number of open access journal articles from 2,019 in 2005 to 24,997 in 2014. The paper calls on African governments, researchers and librarians to deploy sustainable mechanisms to increase global visibility of African research findings using open access platforms. Keywords: Open Access, Institutional Repository, Scholarly Communication, Research Productivity, Research Visibility, Africa"</p>
Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:58:00 -0500https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajlais/article/view/164661
oa.newoa.africaoa.discoverabilityoa.metricsoa.doajoa.roaroa.repositoriesoa.greenoa.doaroa.disciplinesoa.progressoa.growthOPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AUFFINDBAR MACHEN (OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES MADE DISCOVERABLE)<p></p>
<p><span>From Google's English:</span></p>
<p><span>"The use of OER is no longer a rarity, but the search for suitable materials is often quite expensive. One approach for better findability of free educational materials </span><span><a href="https://www.oer-hoernchen.de/"><span>OER croissants</span></a><span> , a search interface that searches various OER platforms. Matthias Andrasch from Cologne University has realized the project and presented the site and its functions in an interview. This interview was first published in </span><a href="https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2017/10/open-educational-resources-auffindbar-machen-das-suchtool-oer-hornchen/"><span>the blog of the ZBW Media Talks</span></a><span> released and is under a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"><span>CC0 license</span></a><span>."</span></span></p>
Sun, 21 Jan 2018 07:56:00 -0500https://hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de/de/tags/creative-commons
Matthias Andraschoa.newoa.germanoa.germanyoa.oeroa.ccoa.platformsoa.commentoa.toolsoa.searchoa.digitizationoa.discoverabilityEnago Launches Open Access Journal Finder (OAJF) - Improving Accessibility of Authentic Open Access Journals - Press Release - Digital Journal<p>"Enago, the leader in editing and publication support services, today announced the worldwide release of<a href="https://www.enago.com/academy/journal-finder/"> Open Access Journal Finder</a> (OAJF) that aims at enabling research scholars to find open access journals relevant to their manuscript. OAJF uses a validated journal index provided by Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – the most trusted non-predatory open access journal directory. The free journal finder indexes over 10,700 pre-vetted journals and allows researchers to compare their paper with over 2.7 million articles and counting. Seeing the positive response in the initial pilot stage, OAJF has also been rolled out in languages other than English, primarily Chinese, Japanese, and Korean...."</p>
Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:28:00 -0500http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3628739
oa.newoa.toolsoa.journalsoa.goldoa.doajoa.discoverabilityoa.authorsoa.predatoryoa.qualityEnago Open Access Journal Finder<p>"The Enago Open Access Journal Finder enables you to find quality open access journals that are pre-vetted to protect you from predatory publishers. This free journal finder solves common issues on predatory journals, journal authenticity, and article processing fees by utilizing a validated journal index provided by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Enago’s proprietary search algorithm helps you shortlist journals that are most relevant to your manuscript and research objectives, thus giving you the best chance of publication."</p>
Sat, 20 Jan 2018 10:23:00 -0500https://www.enago.com/academy/journal-finder/
oa.newoa.toolsoa.journalsoa.goldoa.doajoa.discoverabilityoa.authorsoa.predatoryoa.qualityIndraStra Global launches IGOR, an Open Access Repository - openPR<p>"IndraStra Global, a digital publishing company and a key provider of strategic brand solutions for academics, corporates, and other professionals has recently launched its open access repository called "IGOR - IndraStra Global Open Repository - Hosted over Zenodo". This significant step forward helps to enhance a publication's research impact as well as visibility in a proactive manner. Underlining the Open Access principles, IGOR allows contributing authors of IndraStra (anywhere in the world) to submit their pre-prints, post-prints, and other datasets over OAI-PMH enabled repository. The new open repository is based on Zenodo platform, created by OpenAIRE and CERN Geneva which accelerates time to indexing in the complex world of digital publishing....</p>
<p>...IndraStra Global is a New York-based digital publishing company, primarily focused on publishing and online media intelligence, based upon "O.O.D.A." Framework. Company's product portfolio, which combines data-driven analysis, assessment, and forecasting into multiple-publishing platforms, which in turn supports the nurturing of on-boarded legacy systems."</p>
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:19:00 -0500https://www.openpr.com/news/905439/IndraStra-Global-launches-IGOR-an-Open-Access-Repository.html
oa.newoa.zenodooa.repositoriesoa.greenoa.journalsoa.goldoa.publishersoa.discoverabilityrOpenSci | fulltext v1: text-mining scholarly works | Scott Chamberlain <p>"The problem: Text-mining - the art of answering questions by extracting patterns, data, etc. out of the published literature - is not easy. It’s made incredibly difficult because of publishers. It is a fact that the vast majority of publicly funded research across the globe is published in paywall journals. That is, taxpayers pay twice for research: once for the grant to fund the work, then again to be able to read it.....</p>
<p>...<span>fulltext is a package to help R users address the above problems, and get published literature from the web in it’s many forms, and across all publishers.</span></p>
<p>the fulltext package: fulltext tries to make the following use cases as easy as possible:</p>
<ul>
<li>Search for articles</li>
<li>Fetch abstracts</li>
<li>Fetch full text articles</li>
<li>Get links for full text articles (xml, pdf)</li>
<li>Extract text from articles</li>
<li>Collect sections of articles that you actually need (e.g., titles)</li>
<li>Download supplementary materials</li>
</ul>
<p>fulltext organizes functions around the above use cases, then provides flexiblity to query many data sources within that use case (i.e. function). For example fulltext::ft_search searches for articles - you can choose among one or more of many data sources to search, passing options to each source as needed...."</p>
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:57:00 -0500https://ropensci.org/technotes/2018/01/17/fulltext-v1/
oa.newoa.miningoa.toolsoa.interoperabilityoa.dataoa.searchoa.discoverabilityoa.metadataoa.formatsGlyn Moody: #CopyrightWeek – Don’t Let Upload Filters Undermine the Public Domain – Copybuzz<p>"When modern copyright was created in 1710 by Great Britain‘s Statute of Anne, something remarkable happened that is often overlooked: as well as codifying copyright as we now know it, it also brought into being its negation. Before the Statute of Anne, publishers held a form of eternal copyright on the books they placed in the Stationers’ Register. By granting authors a time-limited government-enforced monopoly – 14 years by default, with an optional extension to a maximum of 28 years – the new law recognised that there was a moment when copyright ceased to apply; it therefore confirmed that works once published could later exist in a state without any monopoly protection....</p>
<p>Precisely the same is likely to happen for works that draw on the public domain if the <a>EU’s proposed upload filters</a> are imposed on Internet sites. If a work uses public domain materials, it could easily be blocked because of pre-existing claims by companies that have produced their own works using the same sources...."</p>
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 11:16:00 -0500http://copybuzz.com/copyright/dont-let-upload-filters-undermine-the-public-domain/
oa.newoa.copyrightoa.policiesoa.pdoa.legislationoa.artsoa.censorshipoa.europeoa.sshoa.recommendationsoa.choa.infrastructureoa.discoverabilityOrienTapas: Curación de contenidos para atender al alumnado con diversidad funcional<p>[From Google Translate] "Content curation to serve students with functional diversity"</p>
<p>Since October 2017, we have launched in OrienTapas a working group, DiverCuradores, in which we collaboratively select open educational resources (R.E.A.) to attend to functional diversity. Our tickets will be published with the R.E.A. to orient in this blog</p>
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:34:00 -0500http://orientapas.blogspot.it/2018/01/curacion-de-contenidos-para-atender-al.html
oa.newoa.spainoa.spanishoa.oeroa.collaborationoa.platformsoa.toolsoa.discoverabilityoa.studentsRecursos Educativos Abiertos (REA): acceso al conocimiento | IDD - Innovación y Desarrollo Docente<p>[From Google Translate] "OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER): ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE"</p>
<p>Open educational resources are teaching, learning or research materials that are in public domain or that have been published with an intellectual property license that allows free use, adaptation and distribution. UNESCO argues that "universal access to high quality education is essential for the construction of peace, sustainable development of society and economy and intercultural dialogue. The open access educational resources provide a strategic opportunity to improve the quality of education and to facilitate policy dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building. " The OER (Open Educational Resources) offer a valuable opportunity for students and teachers to access knowledge for free, as they can be used:</p>
<ul>
<li>In collaborative environments.</li>
<li>Apply in different didactic methodologies.</li>
<li>They can be customized to guarantee personalized learning for the student.</li>
</ul>
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 23:23:00 -0500https://iddocente.com/recursos-educativos-abiertos-acceso-al-conocimiento/
oa.newoa.spainoa.spanishoa.oeroa.unescooa.reuseoa.reproducibilityoa.licensingoa.discoverabilityoa.qualityoa.credibilityoa.open_scienceoa.educationoa.studentsoa.repositoriesoa.case.repositoriesReport: OER Continues Moderate Growth Track -- Campus Technology<p>"While open educational resources (OER) are making headway in higher education classrooms, it's slow going. That's what a recent survey by the Babson Survey Research Group found when it queried 2,711 teaching faculty members within U.S. colleges and universities."</p>
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 07:47:00 -0500https://campustechnology.com/articles/2018/01/16/report-oer-continues-moderate-growth-track.aspx
oa.newoa.oeroa.growthoa.speedoa.reportoa.surveyoa.obstaclesoa.qualityoa.discoverabilityoa.booksoa.textbooksA Platform for OA Journal Discovery: Interview with DOAJWed, 17 Jan 2018 03:36:00 -0500https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/interview.doaj/
oa.newoa.doajoa.interviewoa.journalsoa.goldoa.discoverabilityDigital Science launches Dimensions<p>"Digital Science launches Dimensions: a next-generation research and discovery platform linking 124 million documents, providing free search and citation data across 86 million articles Ground-breaking research information database links publications, grants, policy, data and metrics for the first time Global technology company Digital Science is proud to announce the launch of Dimensions, a new platform that aims to democratise and transform scholarly search...."</p>
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:42:00 -0500https://www.fenews.co.uk/press-releases/15883-digital-science-launches-dimensions
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